Award-winning novelist and short story writer Rebecca Makkai will be giving a reading, engaging the audience in a Q&A, and signing books in the Aspen Room at Lake Tahoe Community College on Feb. 10.

This free event is at 7pm. Books will be available for purchase.

Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the novels “The Hundred-Year House”, winner of the Chicago Writers Association’s Novel of the Year award, and “The Borrower”, a Booklist Top Ten Debut which has been translated into eight languages.

Her short story collection, “Music for Wartime”, was published in June 2015. Her short fiction was chosen for the Best American Short Stories for four consecutive years (2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008), and appears regularly in journals like Harper’s, Tin House, and New England Review. Makkai is a recipient of a 2014 NEA fellowship.